This collective article brings together personal experiences and opinions on the meaning and importance of volunteering by the four current e-volunteers at IYNF. Enjoy the reading! Introduction As the beloved character Winnie the Pooh once said, “The smallest things...
By Edison Miguel Wildfires have become an increasingly urgent issue in Los Angeles, devastating communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure. As an environmental advocate with a background in geospatial and environmental science, I’ve always been drawn to understanding how natural disasters...
A Brief overview of Greek Biodiversity As some of you may know, the Young Naturefriends Greece (NFGR) have become an IYNF full member recently. They are more and more active and we are looking forward to our cooperation. One...
Advocacy Working Group We want to empower young people to meaningfully engage in EU and UN decision making structures. To lobby on climate, environmental and social issues. And bring a youth perspective to the EU and UN decision making...
Ecomaps is an online platform that supports IYNF’s values of sustainable traveling. There are two parts on this website. One is full of information about sustainable living and eating healthy and responsible, such as infographics, articles, charts etc. The...
by Olga Karageorgiou Online volunteering is flexible, easy, full of new learnings and still in support of a good purpose! Our online volunteers are learning while working and developing while supporting. IYNF has been working...
By Sabrina Grape After moving back from Prague to Bremen, Germany, to finish my Bachelor in Leisure Science, I also changed from intern at the IYNF office to Naturefriends’ e-volunteer. As such, I am continuing my series of articles...
By Philipp Schäfer At first, I want to summarize this article from the German Naturefriends and afterwards I’ll continue with a short description of my impressions from the demonstration in Stuttgart which I took part in. On the 17th...
Could media platforms, including social media bring a positive impact on society? It was not an easy article to write, because media platforms usually make the headlines. We daily listen or read opinions and information related to this...
By Miriam Candelas, IYNF e-volunteer On average each person in Europe annually produces half a ton of household waste, most of it coming from food packaging and only 40% of which is reused or recycled. There has also been...